Dictionary of Quotations from Ancient and Modern, English and Foreign Sources / Including Phrases, Mottoes, Maxims, Proverbs, Definitions, Aphorisms, and Sayings of Wise Men, in Their Bearing on Life, Literature, Speculation, Science, Art, Religion, and Morals, Especially in the Modern Aspects of Them

by Rev. James Wood

Physical science has taught us to associate Deity with the normal rather than with the abnormal. Lecky.

Physician, heal thyself. Heb. Pr. 20

Physicians, of all men, are most happy; whatever good success soever they have, the world proclaimeth; and what faults they commit, the earth covereth. Quarles.

Pia fraus—A pious fraud (either for good or evil).

Pick out of mirth, like stones out of thy ground, / Profaneness, filthiness, abusiveness. George Herbert.

Pickpockets and beggars are the best practical physiognomists, without having read a line of Lavater, who, it is notorious, mistook a philosopher for a highwayman. Colton.

Pictoribus atque poetis / Quidlibet audendi 25 semper fuit æqua potestas—The power of daring anything their fancy suggests has always been conceded to the painter and the poet. Hor.

Pictures and shapes are but secondary objects, and please or displease but in memory. Bacon.

Pie repone te—Repose in pious confidence. M.

Pièce de position—A heavy gun. Fr.